Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona is a breathtaking landscape filled with colorful badlands, ancient fossils, and ...

While it’s easy to spend just an hour driving the 28-mile (40-kilometer) road through Petrified Forest National Park in ...

The Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation established the Three Affiliated Tribes National Park with the purchase of 2,100 acres ...

Chris Driesbach, left, and a volunteer stand over a whale fossil found along the Gaviota Coast. Driesbach, a geologist and fossil enthusiast, found the piece after the 2024 storm washed away sand from ...

fossil enthusiast and geologist Chris Driesbach decided to take a trip to the beach to look for petrified wood and small rocks. Instead, he found something far bigger and unexpected.

A new tribal national park in North Dakota is opening a little-seen area of the rugged Badlands to hikers and other outdoors ...

He was on the lookout for other exposed fossils and petrified wood along the beach when he decided to sit down and rest. “[I] looked over and there’s an entire whale just exposed in the shale,” he ...

The Sacramento Mineral Society has monthly meetings open to the public and free programs for children where they can learn about gems and earn patches and badges. There a field trips for people of all ...

PLASMA AGATE, PETRIFIED WOOD OBSIDIAN. THERE’S A LOT OF BEAUTIFUL ... WE’RE GOING TO COLLECT FISH FOSSILS. REALLY? YES. OH MY FOSSILS IN WYOMING. YOU’RE GOING TO GO FISHING?